Honey Truffles With Lots OfBuzz From Catskill Provisions

We thought about saving these delicious honey truffles for a Top Pick around Valentine’s Day. It’s a perfect gift for your “honey.”

But the pumpkin-orange box makes an equally welcome gift for Halloween. Or Thanksgiving. Or any other time of the year.

Located in the historic* Catskill Mountains, Catskill Provisions is a producer of local, raw wildflower honey from hives in the Catskill Mountains. The Catskill Mountains offer a spectacular environment: high altitude, abundant water sources and a great variety of plant life. The honey is harvested in the Spring and Fall; the company motto is, “Happy Bees Make Better Honey.”

Some of that honey is used to sweeten outstanding chocolate truffles, handmade in house. They are so good, we couldn’t stop eating them until the last truffle was gone.

Any chocophile will appreciate a box. The beautiful gift boxes are embossed with a honeycomb pattern.

4 truffles, $20

9 truffles, $40 box

18 truffles, $60

Only the large boxes is on the website as of this writing, but you can call or email for other sizes.

Modern truffles can be coated in peppercorns, sweet curry, paprika and other nontraditional ingredients, and can be enrobed in couverture. But they still have a commonality: balls, squares or other shapes, filled with ganache.

*The Catskills cover a large area of the southeastern portion of the New York State, approximately 100 miles north-northwest of New York City and forty miles southwest of Albany, from the Hudson River to the Delaware River. They have been home to Washington Irving’s fictitious Rip Van Winkle, the 19th-century Hudson River School paintings, the mid-20th century“Borscht Belt” resorts and Woodstock, in the town of Bethel.